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Quora goes 'all in' on AI in final bid to avoid going the same way as Yahoo Answers


Nearly 15 years after founding Quora, D’Angelo wants to reinvent the question-and answer company around AI—before it goes the way of Yahoo Answers.

But D’Angelo says Poe was born out of AI experiments the company began running two years ago, where it used OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate answers for Quora questions. Poe does have some overlap with OpenAI’s GPT Store, a hub for customized AI bots that was announced less than two weeks before the ouster, leading to some speculation from industry observers about D’Angelo’s role in the coup. When asked about that speculation, D’Angelo called it “conspiracy theories” and pointed to the public summary of an internal investigation which said that the board acted “within its broad discretion” to fire Altman.

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